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UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT, 



CONCOED, N. H. 



RE'^TISTCr) ^T>I?,IL, 1869. 



CONCORD: 
PRINTED BY THE INDEPENDENT PRESS ASSOCIATION. 

1869. 



REGULATIONS 



OF THE 



PUBLIC SCHOOL; 



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UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT, 



CONCORD, N. H. 



R E ^ I S E5 ID ^FRIL, 1869. 



C ONC OED: 
PEINTED BY THE INDEPENDENT PEESS ASSOCIATION, 

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REGULATIONS. 

CHAPTER I. 

RULES RELATING TO THE BOARD OP EDUCATION. 

Officers : 

1. The officers of this Board shall consist of a Presi- 
dent, Secretary, and Agent, to be chosen annually, at the 
first meeting of the Board. 

Duties of the President: 

2. It shall be the duty of the President to preside at 
the meetings of the Board, and to call any special meet- 
ing when he shall deem it necessary, or when requested 
so to do by any of its members. 

Duties of the Secretary/ : 

3. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to keep a true 
record of the doings of the Board ; to give notice of its 
meetings ; to preserve files of communications and docu- 
ments belonging to the Board ; to furnish all teachers du- 
ly examined and accepted by the Board, with certificates 
of qualification ; and, in general, to perform the appro- 
priate duties of his office. 

Duties of the Agent : 

4. It shall be the duty of the Agent to discharge the 
duties usually performed by prudential committees of 
school districts. 

Monthly Meetings : 

5. The Board shall hold regular meetings on the first 
Monday of each month, at 7 i o'clock, P. M. 

Suh- Committees : 

6. Sub-Committees shall be appointed to take imme- 
mediato charge of the High School, and of the several 



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schools in the different sections of the district, and for 
such other purposes as may be deemed expedient. 

Duties of Siih- Committees : 

7. It shall be the duty of the several Sub-Committees 
in charge of particular schools, to visit the schools under 
their immediate care, at least once a month ; to make a 
careful examination thereof ; to give teachers advice on 
any emergency, and on complaint duly made, to take 
cognizance of any diflSculty between teachers and the 
parents or guardians of the scholars, subject to an appeal 
to the whole Board ; to see that scholars are properly 
supplied with books ; and to make such temporary ar- 
rangements as they may find necessary in relation to the 
schools, or the convenience of the instructors, in cases 
not provided for in the general regulations. 

Examinations : 

8. There shall be a public examination of all the schools 
at the close of the year. At the end of each term, there 
shall be an examinatbn of the schools, by the whole 
Board, or by Sub-Committees appointed for the purpose. 

CHAPTER II. 

RULES RELATING TO ALL THE SCHOOLS. 

Grrades of Schools : 

1. The schools are divided into the following grades, 
viz : MiXEDj Primary, Intermediate, Grammar, and 
High. 

Division of School Year: 

2. The first term of the school year shall commence 
on the last Monday in August, or the first Monday in 
September, and continue twelve weeks, to be followed by 
a vacation of two weeks. The second term shall com- 
mence on the Monday succeeding the Fall vacation, and 
continue twelve weeks, to be followed by a vacation of 
three weeks. The third term shall commence on the 



Monday succeeding the Spring vacation, and continue 
fourteen weeks, unless otherwise ordered by the Board of 
Education. 
School Hours : 

3. The schools shall commence from the first of the 
school year, until June 1st of the third term at 9 o'clock, 
A. M., and thence after at 8 o'clock, A. M. ; from Oc- 
tober 1st to March 1st, at 1.80 o'clock, P. M., and from • 
March 1st to October 1st, at 2 o'clock, P. M. 

Holidays : 

4. The regular holidays shall be Wednesday and Sat- 
urday afternoons ; Christmas and Fast-days, May day, 
and the Thursday following the 1st Wednesday in June. 
No other holiday shall be allowed, except by special per- 
mission of the Board of Education. 

Sessions of Schools : 

5. The schools shall hold two sessions, of three hours 
each, per day ; and there shall be a recess of ten min- 
utes each half day, and the recess in all the schools shall 
take place as nearly as possible at the close of one half 
of the school session ; and no teacher shall depart from 
this regulation, without the special permission of two of 
the Sub-Committee of the section of the district to which 
the school belongs. 

Teachers to he in their School-Rooms early : 

6. Teachers shall be in their respective school-rooms 
at least ten minutes before the time for opening their 
schools, for the purpose of admitting the scholars as they 
arrive, and preserving order ; and no school-room shall 
be opened for general admission of pupils till the arrival 
of the teacher. 

Tardiness and absence of Pupils : 

Every scholar not present at the appointed time for 
the opening of the school, shall be marked as tardy ; and 
all cases of absence and tardiness must be satisfactorily 
accounted for. In case of the frequent or prolonged ab- 



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sence of scholars, the teacher shall ascertain the cause of 
each absence, and endeavor to prevent a repetition of the 
same. And if any scholar shall be absent to the amount 
of one week during any term, from the High, Grammar 
or Intermediate schools, unless his or her absence be oc- 
casioned by his or her own sickness, or sickness or death 
in the family to which he or she belongs, such cause being 
specified in the note of the parent or guardian, he or she 
shall not be allowed to re-enter the school, except by the 
written permission of the Sub-Committee. 

Oj)ening Exercises : 

8. The morning exercises of all the schools shall com- 
mence with reading a portion of Scripture, and the Board 
recommend that this be followed with prayer, at least with 
the audible repetition of the Lord's Prayer by the teacher 
alone, or by the teacher and scholars in concert. 

Mo7^al Instruction : 

9. Instruction in morals shall be given in all the schools. 
Good morals being of the first importance, and essential 
to their progress in useful knowledge, the pupils shall be 
carefully instructed to avoid idleness and profanity, false- 
hood and deceit, and every wicked and disgraceful prac- 
tice, and to conduct themselves in an orderly and proper 
manner ; and it shall be the duty of the instructors, as 
far as practicable, to exercise a general inspection over 
them in these regards, both in and out of school, and 
also while going to the same and returning hence, and on 
suitable occasions to inculcate upon them the principles of 
truth and virtue. 

Reports of Teachers : 

10. In every school, in addition to the register pre- 
scribed by law, there shall be kept a daily record of the 
attainments and deportment of every scholar, to be open 
to the inspection of the Board of Education, parents or 
guardians. At the close of each term it shall be the du- 
ty of each teacher to submit a report of the standing of 
each scholar, and to have in readiness for the inspection 



of the Board of Education, at each examination, a sched- 
ule of the studies pursued by each class during the term. 
It shall also be the duty of the teachers of the High 
School, and of the Grammar, Intermediate and Mixed 
Schools, to make out and send to the parents or guar- 
dians of schools frequent reports, during each term, of the 
standing of each scholar, in deportment and scholarship ; 
also to return to the Agent of the Board of Education, at 
the close of the second term, the whole number of differ- 
ent boys attending school for the year ; the whole num- 
ber of girls ditto ; the average attendance during the 
year ; the number of boys and girls promoted to schools 
of a higher grade ; and the number transferred to schools 
of the same grade, together with their school registers 
for the year. 

Uxclusion of Pupils : 

11. It is enjoined on the teachers to exercise vigilant, 
prudent and firm discipline. Cases of disobedience and 
improper conduct, if the means of restraint used by the 
teacher be found ineffectual, shall be reported to the 
Board of Education. For flagrant misconduct, any scholar 
shall be expelled from school by the Board of Education, 
and no scholar under censure in one school shall be ad- 
mitted to any other. 

Care of School-House: 

12. Teachers shall give suitable and constant attention 
to the care of the school-rooms, out-buildings, trees, fences, 
and other appurtenances of the school-houses, and other 
property within the same enclosure with the school-houses. 
They shall also give special attention to the temperature^ 
ventilation, and cleanliness of the school-rooms. The 
Principal of the High School, and the Principals of the 
Merrimack and Rumford Grammar Schools, and the 
teachers of the highest grades of schools in the other 
houses, shall be held personally responsible for the care of 
their respective houses. 

Visiting Other Schools : 

13. Teachers shall not be permitted to visit each others 



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schools, except by special permission of two of the Sub- 
committee of the Board of Education, in the section of 
the District in which the schools are located. 

Promotion : 

14. The regular period for making promotions from 
schools of one grade to those of another, shall be at the 
commencement of the school year; but pupils may be 
promoted at other times, at the discretion of the Board 
of Education. 

Text Books : 

15. No text book shall be used in any of the schools, 
except such as the Board of Education shall, from time 
to time direct. 

Advertising Exhibitions : 

16. No exhibition, or concert, shall be advertised in 
any school-room, by any teacher in the district, or by any 
other person. 

CHAPTER III. 

REGULATIONS OF THE PRIMAKY, INTERMEDIATE, AND 
GRAMMAR SCHOOLS. 

Admission to Primary Schools: 

1. No child shall be admitted into the Primary Schools 
under the age of five years. 



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